So far I love the game despite this headache lol Regardless of some of the excuses from Rockstar, this is definately an issue for many people (not just 60gbers or ps3ers for that matter). and honestly my Ps3 runs all my other games fine, including ps2/psx so its safe to say GTA4 has something to patch/fix up at this point. After the re-install everything is smooth, I havent bothered to try play multiplayer since there was alot of posts about Sony Servers being down. It was very consistantly freezing up every 10-15 mins after this so I decided to lose my ~9% of the gamecompleted saves and re-install. Once I left the lobby it would get stuck in a forever 'loading' and did a hard reset and re-load up gta4 again now with freeze issues on the singleplayer (which hasnt happened previously to me). I had roughly~10 hrs into the game (~6hrs multiplayer, ~4 PVE) and just today I would try connect to multiplayer games which would bring me to the regular lobby, but the host would crap out leaving 11 other people stuck inthe lobby. My 20gb did actually freeze up now once I put some more time into it and under some different gameplay. Oh, and thanks to the retailer who mentioned to me when I was buying the game that there have been a 'few glitches' reported.

I'm soooooo glad that I put down a deposit to get one.

I have read some stories about people's DVD/BR lasers crapping out on them when running this game. I was able to get in and turn off the auto save one time before it froze. Deleted and reinstalled the game four times, deleted the saved games, disconnected and disabled the network connection, deleted cookies, etc. Like I said, I tried the 12 step recommendation with no luck. If it did not freeze up before the game even loaded, then it froze up within five seconds. Once, I got to drive the car about five car lengths. It froze up on the initial screen most of the time. I tried the twelve step program with no luck. I tried for about two hours tonight and was not able to get it running on my 60GB PS3.

Gta 4 loading screen turns black